Mike Klonsky's Blog

The Parent Trigger law (Parent Empowerment Act of 2010) is possibly the most anti-democratic piece of education legislation passed in Cali...

I knew John Deasy would land on his feet after being run out of  L.A.U.S.D.  under a cloud  of suspicion. He usually stays one step ahe...

Dave Zirin Dave Zirin "This is about the rot of for-profit amateurism... [It's] educational money-laundering of young black m...

From L.A. school board's statement on the departure of Supt. John Deasy : The Board "does not believe that the superintendent...

“The Supreme Court…has thrown a wet blanket on further discussions. RAHM BLAMES THE COURTS -- He asks his Civic Committee patrons:  H...

Kate Manne When, three days after the shooting, another white officer called the (primarily black) protesters “[expletive] animals,...

Fred Klonsky Readers have begun to ask me about LAUSD's acquisition of machine guns, grenade launchers and armored military vehicles...

All San Diego schools got from the Pentagon was this one lousy armored vehicle. But the Wall St. Journal reports that LAUSD did much ...

Manual Arts Senior High School student Damien Valentine, 16, worked with community groups to pass a proposal last year that bans suspensio...

From left are Gap Chairman Bob Fisher, investor Charles Schwab and philanthropist Eli Broad. A state investigation found that the three we...

Stanford prof  Linda Darling-Hammond , who should have been our Sec. of Education, shares her thoughts on Common Core. We should use t...

"No justice, no peace!" Protesters gather on Hwy.10 in L.A. Zimmerman Prosecutor Angela Corey following the verdict ...

Fired Crenshaw teacher Alex Caputo-Pearl Dana Goldstein At Crenshaw, a “politically and intellectually challenging” themed school-wit...

A new Harvard study shows the so-called "achievement gap" growing wider in L.A. as the neediest of the district's students ...

Taken from yesterday's L.A. Times story, "LAUSD, teachers union spar over voluntary evaluation system". Supt. John Deasy ( ...

L.A.'s Promise turns out to be a big lie Out in L.A., they're "turning-around" Manual Arts High School again. School dist...

It's been a rocky year for charters in Los Angeles Unified, which hosts the most charter schools of any district in the nation—183 cur...

Leading mathematician debunks use of  VAM  The L.A. Times is once again publishing the names of every teacher in the district next to a co...

L.A school boss, John Deasy (the man from Gates) has topped his bureaucracy with a gaggle of extravagantly-paid Broadies and Gates-ies.   ...

Here's his value-added formula Want to know how L.A.'s incoming supt. John Deasy (the man from Gates) is going to sort good teach...